• Published On: Feb 4, 20150.6 min readCategories: Events

    Festival of Spring April 27th to May 17th 2015 For the fifth successive year the island will open its shores to welcome in the lighter & brighter days of the...

  • Published On: Feb 4, 20156.4 min readCategories: Events

    Organisers of the Colonsay Book Festival today announced the line-up of authors for the fourth annual Hebridean literary celebration, for 25 and 26 April 2015.  This year’s programme stars celebrated...

  • Published On: Feb 4, 20151.7 min readCategories: Community News

    Hannah, our LDO, has secured funding for an all-singing, all-dancing Colonsay App which is being designed by BlueMungus.  Some of us are a bit unfamiliar with such things but apparently...

  • Published On: Feb 4, 20151.2 min readCategories: Community News

    Our Local Development Officer is working to arrange satellite Broadband for Colonsay within the next 18 months or so, which is very encouraging.  As it happens, one local business is...

  • Published On: Feb 4, 20151.1 min readCategories: History, Just for Fun

    Readers might remember the Christmas competition, which aimed to identify a tiny holding on the 1808 Estate Map; purely by chance, it has now been noticed that the area in...

  • Published On: Feb 4, 20153.1 min readCategories: Community News

    The Parish Church was recently the subject of a professional inspection and it was noted that BOTH the western windows are in a very poor state; one of them is...

  • Published On: Feb 4, 20151.3 min readCategories: Community News

    Most people in Colonsay will normally drive at between 25mph and 40mph and all will be wearing a seatbelt; and most people do slow down considerably when passing pedestrians (who...

  • Published On: Feb 4, 20150.9 min readCategories: Community News

    Fotunately, there is nothing much to say.  Despite the appalling conditions elsewhere, Colonsay was fairly fortunate – there was very little damage.  The wind did not often gust much over...

  • Published On: Feb 4, 20154 min readCategories: Community Development, Community News

    This meeting had been heralded by both a two-page letter from the remaining four Directors and a subsequent newsletter, with a view to encouraging members of the community to adopt...

  • Published On: Feb 4, 20151.1 min readCategories: History, Just for Fun

    COLONSAY Ploughing Match:  Competitions for ploughing supremacy were commenced on this island twenty-four years ago, and, with the exception of a few years’ break, have been continued to this day. ...

  • Published On: Feb 4, 20151 min readCategories: On The Grapevine

    Gavin was away again! This time he was in the Canaries but he seemed to be making the best of it; Anne and Jim were on the High Seas once...

  • Published On: Feb 4, 20154 min readCategories: Nature

    Despite the persistent extreme weather over the last two months we’ve had some really spectacular wildlife sightings and encounters. We have had brilliant views of a pair of golden eagles...

  • Published On: Feb 4, 20154.6 min readCategories: Letters, Magazine

    COMPETITION TIME The competition is based upon the fact that the Bible has a significance in our culture which goes beyond religion.  It is probably true to say that it...

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